INDIANAPOLIS -- Some are questioning why a man known to have escaped from a work-release center and now accused in four robberies wasn't rearrested sooner.

Jeremy Tomlin, 35, left the Duvall Work Release Center early Monday to report to his job, 6News' Jack Rinehart reported.

Instead, police said he went on a cocaine binge, paid for with the proceeds from four armed robberies over three days.

Officials at the work-release center said they filed a failure to report form early Tuesday after Tomlin didn't return to the facility, hand delivering the document to the judge.

But a warrant for Tomlin's arrest wasn't signed until late Wednesday afternoon, more than three hours after he was arrested on the city's southeast side in connection with the robberies, police said.

Three of the robberies Tomlin is accused of carrying out took place after the work-release center asked the court to issue a warrant for his arrest.

"We're trying to find out why the warrant for Tomlin's arrest wasn't signed immediately," Tom Marendt, executive director of the Marion County Community Corrections Agency, told Rinehart.

Tomlin was serving time for a previous burglary conviction. Police asked that Tomlin's face not be shown until the investigation into the robberies is complete.